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What a month it’s been – and still is. I’ve had a few days off but it feels like I’m more tired then before. “Tropical years” is the literal translation of what other parents with multiple kids call it – the years when the children are under the age of 4.

No consolation from people with older kids though, as they say it doesn’t really get easier after that, it keeps being busy…

I’ve finished this card after I made the previous post, but didn’t have time yet to post it or take pictures at daylight, so I’ll just do with the pictures of the completed card in lampight.

The progress of the card in pictures. First, adding the paint and a card on top.

Spray with glimmer mist or water and wrap in kitchen foil, let dry. Then stamp over it.

I liked how it looked so far. extended some of the ink splatters a bit. I know a Cephalopod doesn’t spray ink from his tentacles, but who cares, it looks nice this way like he’s spray painting his surroundings. Like he’s protecting his pearl.

I wanted to add more scenery, so I stamped some seagrasses and coloured them in as silhouetes. I think I liked it better without them, they´re much too present. A well, it´s done. The sentiment I have added is “What´s your poison?”. I actually wanted something about ink (inky fingers) but didn’t know what, so I chose this one. Not sure how to use this card for now haha. But it was fun making it.

I hope to be able to share some more of my creations soon, my limited time “free” I rather spend crafting then blogging about it!

I made this card onto a background made with bister. I couldn’t quite remember when I made it, as it wasn’t exactly how I usually did it, but it looked quite ok. Then I remembered: my son had made this one. It was an A4 sheet, where we had made on the right side some more greenish colours and a blue river flowing down into a pond. (Use your imagination – he’s 3 1/2). Can you see the river coming from the right of the card, falling down as a waterfall into the pond?

Ofcourse it was me who inked up the corners and edges more after I cut the sheet, as he allready had forgotten about this piece of paper. I found it quite amusing that I had taken a “drawing” of my son and found it good enough to use as background 😛 Ofcourse, I had helped a bit with the bister, and ofcourse you can’t really go wrong with bister (when your mom sprinkles some on the sheet and all you get is a brush and a mister).

I stamped the fish scales on twice with Versafine Smokey Grey first, Then I stamped the octopus, I think with Stazon midnight blue and coloured it with distress paint peacock feathers. Next I stamped the leafy sea dragon as kelp in the corners, colouring it slightly first with distress ink and water, and then going over it with gloss pens, also added gloss gel to the octopus thingies.

Took another piece of cardstock, spritzed ink on it with the spritzing-marker-airbrush tool and assembled the card.

Like this:

A card with VivaLasVegaStamps and Stampendous text (I think), coloured with bister and distress markers. I intended to cut out the top layer in a rectangle, but decided I liked the asymmetric part of it a lot, fits the sentiment.

I only notice now that hte bister spot looks like a heart! I like this card, kind of a “cas” card to me as it’s not full of stamps or other things. I know it’s not yet CAS as usually is meant, but it is to me!

Next card is one that has been lying around waiting to be blogged about for a while. Or I have shown it allready, can’t remember.

Stamped the flowers on the white cardstock with distress embossing ink and embossed with clear powder. Then I masked off the strip, and coloured it with peacock distress ink and spritzed with water. I stamped the peacock in turqoise Stazon, cut out a rectangle and inked up all edges and assembled the card as seen. The rectangle is still without sentiment, I’ll add that as soon as I am going to use the card. Stamps on this card are Chocolate Baroque.

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Debbie (nickname Daqa); the partner of a wonderful man; mother of 3 kids (2011, 2013, 2014); sister; aunt; Dutch; dog and cat lover; gamer (or should I say geek?); IT-consultant living in Bunde, Zuid-Limburg, The Netherlands. I love to try out different crafts, but mostly, I like to make paper things.

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